NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI), a leading provider of research-based indexes and
analytics, will announce the results of the May 2018 Semi-Annual Index
Review for the MSCI Equity Indexes – including the MSCI Global Standard
Indexes, MSCI Global Small Cap and MSCI Micro Cap Indexes, the MSCI
Global Value and Growth Indexes, the MSCI Frontier Markets and MSCI
Frontier Markets Small Cap Indexes, the MSCI Global Islamic and MSCI
Global Islamic Small Cap Indexes, the MSCI Pan-Euro and MSCI Euro
Indexes, the MSCI US Equity Indexes, the MSCI US REIT Index, the MSCI
China A Onshore Indexes and the MSCI China All Shares Indexes. All
changes will be made as of the close of May 31, 2018.

MSCI will post the list of additions to and deletions from the indexes
for the May 2018 Semi-Annual Index Review on its web site, www.msci.com,
shortly after 11:00 p.m. Central European Time (CET) on May 14, 2018.

A summary of the announcement will be made available shortly thereafter
on Bloomberg page MSCN, and Reuters public page MSCIA.

Additionally, MSCI will make detailed rebalancing information available
to clients beginning immediately after the summary announcement appears
on Bloomberg and/or Reuters. Clients can access the subscriber section
of each index at: www.msci.com/index-review-subscribers.

For the MSCI US Equity Indexes and the MSCI US REIT Index, a summary of
the announcement will be made available at www.msci.com.

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